Not to Be Indelicate, but …

With advancements in search-engine caching technology — namely Google’s — self-searching can unearth cached pages of VolunteerMatch.org containing people’s names, and organizations they once had been interested in.

“Typically, the individual had forgotten they’d opted-in to list their name publicly on our site and subsequently asked that we remove them,” she says. “To prevent this from occurring in the future and to safeguard users’ privacy, we’ve removed this feature from our site.”